HOLY WORD The Paradigm of New Testament Formation

BAIRD J. Arthur

ISBN 10: 0826460259 / ISBN 13: 9780826460257

Published by JSOT Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. 0826460259, 2002

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1st edn. 8vo. Original silver gilt lettered dark blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. 268 (no inscriptions).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: HOLY WORD The Paradigm of New Testament Formation
• Publisher: JSOT Sheffield Academic Press, 2002. 0826460259
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826460259
• ISBN 13: 9780826460257
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Theology

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Synopsis

J. Arthur Baird is the author of several important books in New Testament studies, his best known perhaps being his Audience Criticism and the Historical Jesus. At his untimely death, he left a nearly complete manuscript, now published here. In this timely and relevant manuscript, Baird offers first a critical introduction to the historical paradigm, pointing out its limitations in terms of tracing the paradigm of New Testament formation. He then traces this development himself, beginning with the starting point of the Holy Word and noting its development through the context, theological interpretation, and application, to its manifestation in the apostles, schools and fathers. He concludes with comments on its current implications. This book represents the last and lasting final thoughts of a scholar who was very much devoted to the importance of the Holy Word.

About the Authors

J. Arthur Baird was Synod Professor of Religion at Wooster College in Wooster, Ohio, where he taught from 1954 until his retirement.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.